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'Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian—ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.' - Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918) Hi there So what am I?
I’m an anthropologist (psychological, linguistic) and geographer by training, and I work in cartography (which I’m passionate about) and archaeology (which I most certainly am not). I enjoy backpacking, horse packing, photography, and kicking back with a strong cup of coffee and a good book. I am 32-years old, and have two dogs and two cats, a house and garden, and a husband. My favourite authors are Kafka, Dumas, Le Carré, and Eco; music I’m listening to right now includes Morrissey, James Blunt, Coldplay, and Limp Bizkit, but I change that all the time, and am just as likely to pop in Cash, Clapton, or Mozart. I actually mostly listen to the news – BBC World Service – and satellite radio. My favourite movies include the entire Bergman collection, Burnt by the Sun, Brazil, Fight Club, and selected Monty Python, among many others. The town in which I have been living for five-odd years is small and rural, surrounded by wheat and barley fields, and cattle ranches. The Rocky Mountains rise sharply in the west. ‘Cultural stimulation’ is in the form of five nights of performing arts per year, and the annual drinking-fests of July 4 and New Year’s Eve. Oh – and teen sport. I tend to just stay at home. It is a fantastic place to be four months of the year, and just windy the other eight. I'd love to hear from you, if you enjoy intellectual debates or intelligent conversations about most any subject. Drop a message!2 Just a few of the places I likeOnline Books Anthropology Resources on the Internet BecomingHuman Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative Language, Structural Linguistics, and Linguistics Theory Links Slang, profanities, insults and vulgarisms from all the world H2G2 links I can never find when I need them Style Guide GuideML Clinic Underguide The Post RGS Member's Bar The Forum Peer Review  |
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It’s been raining every weekend now for several in a row. Weekdays, spent languishing in the office in front of a computer, have been brilliant and sunny; but the weather seems to know Friday, and rolls in thunderstorms that flash brilliantly for a few minutes, waning to torrential downpour and then constant grey drizzle. Not that I ought to be complaining – we need every drop we get this time of year, but I can almost imagine I’m in Britain facing the grey skies I so long ago fled for colder but sunnier climes. And, to top it off, I’m down with the most awful morning sickness, which finally convinced me, although I already knew, to go buy a test. So I lay on the couch, staring out at the rain trying to imagine another month and a half of a soon-to-be beautiful summer spent eating crackers, sipping water, and taking deep breaths whilst trying to accomplish loads of fieldwork in 35° temperatures, and my initial excitement turns quickly to ambivalence toward the whole idea of procreation. |
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